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The law is being completely ridiculous. If you support the fact that that dude should go to jail for 5 years because he video taped and posted a cop...IN PLAIN CLOTHES, IN A CIVILIAN VEHICLE...doing the wrong thing, then you must be against your right to the first ammendment.
First, that cop should have called an ON DUTY police officer to take care of business.
If I saw a dude step out of a plain ole car, with plain ole clothes, with a GUN pulled...I don't know but that ain't cool. You can't trust a stranger in public.


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yeah, I woulda haul assed outta there if a dude with a gun jumped out in front of me
should make for an interesting case here
the rider is still a douchebag for doing that crap on the public roads



As in a lot of these cases there is a little editing being done to make the story better. In the full video there is a State police car behind the bike with lights going. The plain clothes trooper also has his badge clearly showing on his belt and verbally identifies himself as a trooper. Your assuming the Trooper was off duty and thats a civilian vehicle. I don't think thats the case. I don't believe that the gun drawn was a smart move but I think the troopers were reluctant to let the bike take off again after they have just pursued him at 100+ mph and while the bike was doing wheelies.
What would have happened if the biker was killed after the Trooper was unable to stop him?
The whole video thing is the rider trying to be a cooldouch and its likely to now bite him in the ******.
Maryland is a 2 person wire tap consent state, he didn't have the Troopers permission to tape him (even though its on a public street)so its illegal.

I also wonder(taking the 2 person consent thing in to consideration) how dash cams work in that state.